Club members Miriam Leavitt and Rhea Stockwell display quilts, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Club members Miriam Leavitt and Rhea Stockwell display quilts, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

April 12, 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The antique quilts on display at Gibson Hall ranged in value from $25 to $500, owned by members of the Friday Morning Club and newly appointed member of the arts and crafts division of Women's Clubs Miss Leta Horlocker.
Photograph appears with the article, "Romance Runs Rampant in Collection of Old Quilts," Los Angeles Times, 05 Apr 1936: C13.
The two women stand before a large quilt with floral patterns while holding up a smaller one of a different design.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Mmes. Max Leavitt and Nathaniel Stockwell of the Friday Morning Club were exhibitors and hostesses at the first annual handcraft and heirloom exhibit of the club when more than fifty remarkable quilts were shown. There were no prizes given, but competition was high in exhibiting the rarest examples.
Text from negative sleeve: 4725 - Friday Morning Club Mmes. Max Levitt Nathaniel Stockwell [stamped:] Apr 12 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Handicraft--California--Los Angeles
Quilts
Clubwomen--California--Los Angeles

Names

Stockwell, Rhea, b. 1895
Leavitt, Miriam, b. 1877
Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image